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Mass spectrometers
« on: May 10, 2008, 06:55:51 PM »
The have mass spectrometers at my sons new high school I wasn't allowed to play them in collage
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2008, 06:58:39 PM »
School!?

How did they manage to afford that, most of the science equipment in my old physics dept dates back to the 50's...
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2008, 04:14:56 AM »
quite.  i wanna play on them, too!
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2008, 08:03:02 AM »
I have no idea how they got them.  It's a science based magnet school not the easiest to get into but it is part of the local public system as a cooperative between several towns meaning we don't pay extra :green:  He gets college credit for some of the classes when he in a jr and senior
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2008, 10:32:36 AM »
hah!  well i can beat that, cos my school had a particle accelerator.  so there!  :smarty:
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2008, 10:54:06 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on May 11, 2008, 10:32:36 AM
hah!  well i can beat that, cos my school had a particle accelerator.  so there!  :smarty:
Lol, what do you think the first stage in mass spectrometer is?
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2008, 01:43:10 PM »
Fucking hell, I wish when I was school we could have had those to play with!!!

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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2008, 02:18:23 PM »
I didn't get those to play with in collage.  The school has several large corporate partners including Sikorsky Aircraft which is just a town away
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2008, 04:50:10 PM »
Sure beats my old physics classroom.  I was at school one day back in the '80s, when it was pouring down rain outside.  When I showed up for physics class, it was pouring down rain inside.  My physics teacher was about to have a stroke, rushing to save equipment.  You could watch the ceiling tiles disintegrate and fall as they became saturated with rainwater.  All because a notorious southern state didn't see education as worth fucking investing in.  As a result, the roof went a long time without repair, and then that happened.
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2008, 01:04:12 AM »
Quote from: Irate Student on May 11, 2008, 10:54:06 AM
Quote from: Lucifer on May 11, 2008, 10:32:36 AM
hah!  well i can beat that, cos my school had a particle accelerator.  so there!  :smarty:
Lol, what do you think the first stage in mass spectrometer is?

i know, but our was three miles long.  :smarty:
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2008, 02:01:34 AM »
Quote from: parts on May 10, 2008, 06:55:51 PM
The have mass spectrometers at my sons new high school I wasn't allowed to play them in collage

That's cool that he will be exposed to them in high school, Parts.  My college had mass spectrometers, although my high school did not.

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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2008, 02:02:29 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on May 11, 2008, 10:32:36 AM
hah!  well i can beat that, cos my school had a particle accelerator.  so there!  :smarty:

ISIS?
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2008, 02:04:07 AM »
nope - bald-faced lying.  :laugh:
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2008, 02:11:54 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on May 12, 2008, 02:04:07 AM
nope - bald-faced lying.  :laugh:

I wondered if you might have been when you said that it was three miles long, because I thought the longest linear particle accelerator in the world was SLAC and it's only two miles long.
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Re: Mass spectrometers
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2008, 04:31:37 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on May 12, 2008, 01:04:12 AM
Quote from: Irate Student on May 11, 2008, 10:54:06 AM
Quote from: Lucifer on May 11, 2008, 10:32:36 AM
hah!  well i can beat that, cos my school had a particle accelerator.  so there!  :smarty:
Lol, what do you think the first stage in mass spectrometer is?

i know, but our was three miles long.  :smarty:
Or 1m in diameter, just that the particles go around a few times? :P
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